Irish Literary Times

Many congratulations

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling.

www.mklitfest.org/online-event...

@kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

Many congratulations!!!

Richard Hell

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Congratulations!

@irishlittimes.bsky.social

It's no mere coincidence we will be discussing Tim O'Brien's masterpiece of prose The Things They Carried, at the closure to my American Short Story course tonight at the Irish Writers Centre (alongside A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin).

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

👋 Meet the cast for the 2026 Spring Tour of Macbeth!

Garry Hynes directs 11 of Ireland's finest actors, led by Marty Rea as Macbeth and fellow Tony Award winner Marie Mullen as Lady Macbeth.

Tickets for Macbeth at druid.ie

Galway: 25 March–5 April
Belfast: 16–19 April
Limerick: 23–25 April

Galway launch of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 with Sarah Kenny of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

‘Pleading The Belly‘ by John O'Donnell is available to read now:

stingingfly.org/2026/03/04/p...

“As I raised myself on my elbows, she lowered her head over me, just beneath my belly button. One hand stroked my skin, while her other hand held the receptacle below.“

Thanks, Books Ireland, and congratulations to all!
FOUR NIGHT SEAS is launching 19th March in Liber Bookshop, Sligo at 17:30.
I will be dressed in flowing robes and will be speaking in tongues for a portion of the launch. 🥕🧭

Congrats.

Gut-wrenching account of the Troubles I have met numerous people who romanticized and glorified the violence that occurred during the Northern Irish Troubles that claimed more than 3,60...

Dirty Linen is now available to buy in the US. Here is a review by Geoffrey Cobb in the New York-based Irish Echo.

www.irishecho.com/2025/9/gut-w...

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Saw King Kong as a very young boy and was smitten.

Sounds like a regular night at my writing group.

Is my work never done?😉

Did you know the
@nlireland.bsky.social
houses original artworks by actual people who are still alive. If you get in touch you can view original art from #TheLatenightWritersClub which held safe and warm in their Illustration archives for all eternity

Thank you to the Belltable for being a super venue for the Festival. Wonderful to have all the events in one place and thanks to the staff for the smooth running of it all.
#LLF2026

I need to revisit. I remember the film being made at Trinity when I was studying there (Engineering - none of that Blake nonsense!).

A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains. A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!" He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path." She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married." He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers." Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!" He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs. "When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!" She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

'Castle'
One of the limited-edition prints in my shop
www.tomgauld.com/shop

Looks stunning

We could all be "dead 'appy".

Gethan Dick - Water in the Desert Fire in the Night - PB - BRAND NEW sales@thebookshop.ie

Winner of the Kate O'Brien Award at @limericklitfest.bsky.social , published by @tramppress.bsky.social - Waterin the Desert, Fire in the Night from Gethan Dick - only €10 while stocks last!
thebookshop.ie/gethan-dick-...

Contentious Spaces ‘Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer of huge and vivacious talent and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ – Kevin Barry

Contentious Spaces Rosaleen McDonagh 

‘Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer of huge and vivacious talent and this is a brilliant novel, so vivid and urgent and addictive.’ – Kevin Barry

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Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman - The Manchester Review Shirking the moral constraints of autofiction, this novel provides ecstatic multiple narrative planes that wrestle instead with the uncanny Rob Doyle | Cameo | Wieden & Nicholson: £20Reviewed by Edwar...

The Manchester Review
Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13182

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